Having left the ex Midland Railway Clowne Branch at Oxcroft Colliery Branch Jnct (behind the rear wagon), 58024 begins its short journey down to Oxcroft Opencast Disposal Point with a rake of empty HAA 'merry go round' coal hoppers for loading on 19/11/1992. Oxcroft closed in 2006, along with the disappearance of mines in Derbyshire. It was briefly reopened by UK Coal when they started a coal recovery operation in 2007 to sift through nearby pit tips and recover around 14000 tonnes of coal. It closed again shortly after and is now flattened and all track lifted.
58024 traverses the short branch from Oxcroft Colliery Branch Jnct down to Oxcroft Opencast Disposal Point with a rake of empty HAA 'merry go round' coal hoppers for loading on 19/11/1992. Oxcroft closed in 2006, along with the disappearance of mines in Derbyshire. It was briefly reopened by UK Coal when they started a coal recovery operation in 2007 to sift through nearby pit tips and recover around 14000 tonnes of coal. It closed again shortly after and is now flattened and all track lifted.
58024 has detached from its train of empty HAA hoppers at Oxcroft Opencast Disposal Point on 19/11/1992 and is in the process of running round its train in order to reverse onto the hoppers being drawn through the loader by the sites Hunslet industrial shunting locomotive. 03037 also in industrial use stands to the left of 58024. Oxcroft closed in 2006, along with the disappearance of mines in Derbyshire. It was briefly reopened by UK Coal when they started a coal recovery operation in 2007 to sift through nearby pit tips and recover around 14000 tonnes of coal. It closed again shortly after and is now flattened and all track lifted.
